Sanchez Plans to Impose on Airlines a Pioneer Green Fee of 2% on the Use of Biofuels

by Victor Martinez (El Mundo Google Translation)) The Spanish Government plans to introduce a goal of biofuel consumption to the airline sector within its environmental policies against climate change. The Ministry of Ecological Transition completes a draft Climate Change Law in which the Executive is authorized to establish annual biofuel targets in air transport in a similar way to how it is done in road movements to reduce its polluting emissions, according to it is included in the draft submitted to the affected companies for analysis.

The Executive’s plan foresees a quota in the use of these compulsory ‘green’ fuels of 2% from 2025, which is a revolutionary movement in a sector that until now has self-regulated in its strategy to reduce emissions through the Association International Air Transport (Iata).

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The aviation sector has already started on its own to introduce biofuels on commercial flights. The goal set by the Iata is that one million flights are operated in 2020 with a mixture of kerosene and clean fuels from algae, biomass or wood, among others. In 2017, 100,000 operations were carried out, equivalent to 0.3% of world traffic.

Now, the Government proposes that the promotion of biofuels should not remain a voluntary effort and be binding. It is a measure similar to that approved in land transport, where the current quota is 6%. However, this figure has been subject to modifications after the Executive of Mariano Rajoy in 2013 reduced it to 4.1% to lower the price of fuels and then raise it in 2016 to meet the environmental objectives imposed by the Commission European. READ MORE